Several of you may recall my earlier posts from the Buick Club’s national meet up in Flint, Michigan earlier in the year. Other than the BCA meet, I also stopped in to see what was happening at the Early Ford V-8 Meet in Dearborn, and then eventually made it to the Model T Centennial in Richmond, Indiana (recently featured in the December 2008 issue of Hemmings Classic Car). Collectively, I spent 10 days on the road, three of which were in Evansville, Indiana. Nice town, sits right on the Ohio River. They have a small zoo and a riverboat casino; also small when compared to others. But I wasn’t in town for the entertainment. There were cars to be photographed.

Having earlier made arrangements with resident Don Goebel (and owner of a 1970 Boss 302 Mustang), he invited a bunch of fellow gearheads to meet me upon my arrival. One of those in attendance was Steve Honnell. I already had the pleasure of meeting Steve down at the Charlotte Auto Fair earlier, along with two of his vehicles, but the weather failed to cooperate with our schedules at that time. Why I even bother mentioning this is because Steve drove from his home in not so nearby Tennessee to Evansville, with two of his cars in tow, which enabled us to accomplish what we could not do back in April.

In the foreground is Steve’s 1964 Ford Thunderbolt – he is the original owner of this car, and did in fact race it back in the day. He even brought along the original battery that looked to weigh in at one metric ton. Steve’s loading up his 1970 Ford King Cobra, one of three prototypes constructed; further details will eventually be appearing in Hemmings Muscle Machines. I might add that, as the sun set here, Steve faced a four-hour drive home.

And for you baseball fans, some of you might recall the building in the background. That’s Bosse Field, current home of the Evansville Otters; they’re a part of the Frontier League. What makes Bosse special – aside from it’s June 17, 1915, opening day – is that only two other currently operating ball parks in the nation are older: Fenway Park in Boston (1912) and Wrigley Field in Chicago (1914). This field was also used in the Hollywood film “A League of Their Own.”